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Thomas Huehn 5f919abc76 mac80211: add standard deviation to Minstrel stats
This patch adds the statistical descriptor "standard deviation"
to better describe the current properties of Minstrel and
Minstrel-HTs success probability distribution. The standard
deviation (SD) is calculated as exponential weighted moving
standard deviation (EWMSD) and its current value is added as
new column in all rc_stats (in debugfs).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:33 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 50e55a8ea7 mac80211: add max lossless throughput per rate
This patch adds the new statistic "maximum possible lossless
throughput" to Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs rc_stats (in debugfs). This
enables comprehensive comparison between current per-rate throughput
and max. achievable per-rate throughput.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:32 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 6a27b2c40b mac80211: restructure per-rate throughput calculation into function
This patch moves Minstrels and Minstrel-HTs per-rate throughput
calculation (EWMA(thr)) into a dedicated function to be called.
Therefore the variable "unsigned int cur_tp" within struct
"minstrel_rate_stats" becomes obsolete.  and is removed to free
up its space.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:32 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 9134073bc6 mac80211: improve Minstrel variable & function naming
This patch ensures a consistent usage of variable names for type
"minstrel_rate_stats" to be used as "mrs" and from type minstrel_rate
as "mr" across both Minstrel & Minstrel-HT. In addition some
variable and function names got changed to more meaningful ones.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:31 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 2cae0b6a70 mac80211: add new Minstrel-HT statistic output via csv
This patch adds a new debugfs file "rc_stats_csv" to output
Minstrel-HTs statistics in a common csv format that is easy
to parse.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Venz <ikstream86@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[remove printing current time of day]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 20:44:26 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 9c00bb7210 mac80211: enhance readability of Minstrel-HTs rc_stats output
This patch restructures the rc_stats debugfs table of Minstrel-HT in
order to achieve better human readability. A new layout of the
statistics and a new header is added. In addition to the old layout
there are two new columns of information added:
idx	- representing the rate index of each rate in mac80211 which
	  can be used to set specific rates as fixed rate via debugfs
airtime	- the tx-time in micro seconds that a 1200 Byte packet
	  takes to be transmitted over the air at the given rate

The old layout of rc_stats:

type           rate      tpt eprob *prob ret  *ok(*cum)        ok(      cum)
HT20/LGI       MCS0      5.6 100.0 100.0   1    0(   0)         1(        1)
HT20/LGI   B   MCS1     10.5 100.0 100.0   0    0(   0)         1(        1)
HT20/LGI  A    MCS2     14.8 100.0 100.0   0    0(   0)         1(        1)
...

is changed into this new layout:

            best   ________rate______    __statistics__    ________last_______    ______sum-of________
mode guard #  rate  [name   idx airtime]  [ ø(tp) ø(prob)]  [prob.|retry|suc|att]  [#success | #attempts]
HT20  LGI  1         MCS0     0    1480      0.0      0.0      0.0   1     0 0             0   0
HT20  LGI  1     B   MCS1     1     740     10.5    100.0    100.0   0     0 0             1   1
HT20  LGI  1    A    MCS2     2     496     14.8    100.0    100.0   0     0 0             1   1
...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Venz <ikstream86@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-04-01 11:22:39 +02:00
Karl Beldan 8ec7886b1c mac80211: minstrel_ht: use group flags instead of index to display rates
When displaying a rate through debugfs minstrel_ht guesses its flags
comparing group indexes.  Since 3ec373c421 ("mac80211: minstrel_ht:
include type (cck/ht) in rates flag"), the rate flags of interest are
present in the mcs_group-s, so use it.
While improving the code, this also fixes a smatch false positive
"error: testing array offset 'i' after use" in minstrel_ht_stats_dump.
This warning only triggers after 9208247d74 ("mac80211: minstrel_ht:
add basic support for VHT rates <= 3SS@80MHz") with
CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_VHT unset because then MINSTREL_VHT_GROUP_0
is above MINSTREL_GROUPS_NB and smatch only barks when the "testing
array offset" seems to prevent possible out of bonds accesses (which
does not happen here since i < ARRAY_SIZE(mi->groups)).

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-10-23 20:36:13 +02:00
Karl Beldan 9208247d74 mac80211: minstrel_ht: add basic support for VHT rates <= 3SS@80MHz
When the new CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL_VHT is not set (default 'N'),
there is no behavioral change including in sampling and MCS_GROUP_RATES
remains 8.
Otherwise MCS_GROUP_RATES is 10, and a module parameter *vht_only*
(default 'true'), restricts the rates selection to VHT when VHT is
supported.

Regarding the debugfs stats buffer:
It is explicitly increased from 8k to 32k to fit every rates incl. when
both HT and VHT rates are enabled, as for the format, before:
type           rate     tpt eprob *prob ret  *ok(*cum)        ok(      cum)
HT20/LGI ABCDP MCS0     0.0   0.0   0.0   1    0(   0)         0(        0)
after:
 type           rate      tpt eprob *prob ret  *ok(*cum)        ok(      cum)
 HT20/LGI ABCDP MCS0      0.0   0.0   0.0   1    0(   0)         0(        0)
VHT40/LGI       MCS5/2    0.0   0.0   0.0   0    0(   0)         0(        0)

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-10-21 13:25:26 +02:00
Karl Beldan 8a0ee4fe19 mac80211: minstrel_ht: macros adjustments for future VHT_GROUPs
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-10-20 21:39:35 +02:00
Karl Beldan 11b2357d5d mac80211: minstrels: fix buffer overflow in HT debugfs rc_stats
ATM an HT rc_stats line is 106 chars.
Times 8(MCS_GROUP_RATES)*3(SS)*2(GI)*2(BW) + CCK(4), i.e. x100, this is
well above the current 8192 - sizeof(*ms) currently allocated.

Fix this by squeezing the output as follows (not that we're short on
memory but this also improves readability and range, the new format adds
one more digit to *ok/*cum and ok/cum):

- Before (HT) (106 ch):
type           rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  retry   this succ/attempt   success    attempts
CCK/LP          5.5M           0.0        0.0         0.0      0              0(  0)         0           0
HT20/LGI ABCDP MCS0            0.0        0.0         0.0      1              0(  0)         0           0
- After (75 ch):
type           rate     tpt eprob *prob ret  *ok(*cum)        ok(      cum)
CCK/LP          5.5M    0.0   0.0   0.0   0    0(   0)         0(        0)
HT20/LGI ABCDP MCS0     0.0   0.0   0.0   1    0(   0)         0(        0)

- Align non-HT format Before (non-HT) (83 ch):
rate      throughput  ewma prob  this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
ABCDP  6         0.0        0.0        0.0             0(  0)         0           0
      54         0.0        0.0        0.0             0(  0)         0           0
- After (61 ch):
rate          tpt eprob *prob  *ok(*cum)        ok(      cum)
ABCDP  1      0.0   0.0   0.0    0(   0)         0(        0)
      54      0.0   0.0   0.0    0(   0)         0(        0)

*This also adds dynamic checks for overflow, lowers the size of the
non-HT request (allowing > 30 entries) and replaces the buddy-rounded
allocations (s/sizeof(*ms) + 8192/8192).

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-10-20 16:37:01 +02:00
Thomas Huehn 5935839ad7 mac80211: improve minstrel_ht rate sorting by throughput & probability
This patch improves the way minstrel_ht sorts rates according to throughput
and success probability. 3 FOR-loops across the entire rate and mcs group set
in function minstrel_ht_update_stats() which where used to determine the
fastest, second fastest and most robust rate are reduced to 2 FOR-loop.

The sorted list of rates according throughput is extended to the best four
rates as we need them in upcoming joint rate and power control. The sorting
is done via the new function minstrel_ht_sort_best_tp_rates(). The annotation
of those 4 best throughput rates in the debugfs file rc-stats is changes to:
"A,B,C,D", where A is the fastest rate and C the 4th fastest.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Venz <ikstream86@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-11 12:10:14 +02:00
Karl Beldan 7a5e3fa2c8 mac80211: minstrel_ht: replace some occurences of MCS_GROUP_RATES
Consecutive MCSes in [8*(NSS-1)->8*NSS[ have the same number NSS of
streams (except for MCS32 which is mishandled ATM).
ATM minstrel_ht uses MCS_GROUP_RATES in place of this 8 modulus.
This change replaces such occurences and by doing so allows for different
values of MCS_GROUP_RATES (e.g to cope with VHT MCS8,9).

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 20:52:07 +01:00
Felix Fietkau a0497f9f57 mac80211/minstrel_ht: add support for using CCK rates
When MCS rates start to get bad in 2.4 GHz because of long range or
strong interference, CCK rates can be a lot more robust.

This patch adds a pseudo MCS group containing CCK rates (long preamble
in the lower 4 slots, short preamble in the upper slots).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[make minstrel_ht_get_stats static]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13 10:56:33 +01:00
Felix Fietkau 7f4fe17bc2 mac80211/minstrel_ht: show the number of retries for each rate in debugfs
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 22:43:11 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker bc3b2d7fb9 net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
Arnd Bergmann a0572d93c1 mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
No need for seek here, so let's just use nonseekable_open.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-09-16 10:33:17 +02:00
John W. Linville de66bfd85c minstrel_ht: move minstrel_mcs_groups declaration to header file
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
2010-06-24 15:42:18 -04:00
Felix Fietkau ec8aa669b8 mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithm
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:12:59 -04:00